News & Info Related To 2017 Open Enrollment

[Yagents]

Great opportunity to those who still believe.............

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Dear Agent/Broker,



Last year during Open Enrollment 2016, agents and brokers enrolled consumers in Marketplace plans at a variety of retail locations, including Walmart stores across the country. The opportunity to be in Walmart stores will be available again this year during Open Enrollment for 2017. In order to participate in this Walmart event, you must hold a valid state license and be trained and registered to participate in the Marketplace for 2017. Click here for more information on how to train and register to assist consumers enroll in Marketplace plans for Open Enrollment this year.



To learn about this Walmart opportunity and to indicate your interest in participating, click here. As other opportunities arise, we will keep you informed.



Thank you for participating in Marketplace Open Enrollment this year!

 

[AllenChicago]

anybody who does the Walmart gig this year will be peppered with nothing but angry questions from consumers. the broker who does this should get Battle pay because commissions will be virtually non-existent on the few sales that they do make.

 

[ARus]

Great opportunity to those who still believe.............

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Dear Agent/Broker,



Last year during Open Enrollment 2016, agents and brokers enrolled consumers in Marketplace plans at a variety of retail locations, including Walmart stores across the country. The opportunity to be in Walmart stores will be available again this year during Open Enrollment for 2017. In order to participate in this Walmart event, you must hold a valid state license and be trained and registered to participate in the Marketplace for 2017. Click here for more information on how to train and register to assist consumers enroll in Marketplace plans for Open Enrollment this year.



To learn about this Walmart opportunity and to indicate your interest in participating, click here. As other opportunities arise, we will keep you informed.



Thank you for participating in Marketplace Open Enrollment this year!

What else to expect?????
Imagine Walmart store and 10 insurance agents with badges trying to bring customers attention by offering health insurance, pardon -cable tv, pardon...when most clients there are on medicaid....

 

[AllenChicago]

Nice little summary of how ObamaCare's unraveling is accelerating:

"Aetna's announcement follows UnitedHealth Group's (UNH) decision to leave most ObamaCare markets, Humana's (HUM) decision to drop out of some, Blue Cross Blue Shield's announcement that it was quitting the individual market in Minnesota, and the failure of most of the 23 government-created insurance co-ops. And it follows news that insurance companies are putting in for double-digit rate hikes that in some cases top 60%, and news that the Congressional Budget Office has sharply downgraded its long-term enrollment forecast for the exchanges."

Source: ObamaCare Is Failing Exactly The Way Critics Said It Would | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

 

[somarco]

 

[Yagents]

The carriers are in the drivers seat. How much money was wasted / spent to give DOI's power to lower rates?

State approves rate jump for 1 of 2 health exchange insurers - Washington Times

Commissioner Mike Chaney said Thursday he approved the increase, beginning Jan. 1, for Kentucky-based Humana because actuaries project a sharp increase in costs and he feared Humana would leave Mississippi.

"I've approved this because it's justified and if I didn't approve it, they might have pulled out of the whole state," Chaney said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

 

[AllenChicago]

Obama Administration (HHS) says that Health Insurers are flat out WRONG! There's no reason for raising premiums very much in 2017, because claim costs didn't increase very much in 2015.

Story: Obama Administration Counters Insurer View on Healthcare Law

How would HHS know if claim costs increased or decreased? Did the install a mole in every health insurer's accounting department?

 

[tonyisme]

wouldn't all the evidence be at each of the states DOI offices?

 

[ARus]

Nice little summary of how ObamaCare's unraveling is accelerating:

"Aetna's announcement follows UnitedHealth Group's (UNH) decision to leave most ObamaCare markets, Humana's (HUM) decision to drop out of some, Blue Cross Blue Shield's announcement that it was quitting the individual market in Minnesota, and the failure of most of the 23 government-created insurance co-ops. And it follows news that insurance companies are putting in for double-digit rate hikes that in some cases top 60%, and news that the Congressional Budget Office has sharply downgraded its long-term enrollment forecast for the exchanges."

Source: ObamaCare Is Failing Exactly The Way Critics Said It Would | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

"improve quality while improving affordability" isn't it funny??? Especially the second one. Thanks groups market insurers can sustain without Obama Care. Am I right or wrong?! During the First year the group market was hit strong, and they changed quickly few small details, so people can't move from there to the individual subsidised market.

 

[TN_agent]

Obama Administration (HHS) says that Health Insurers are flat out WRONG! There's no reason for raising premiums very much in 2017, because claim costs didn't increase very much in 2015.

Story: Obama Administration Counters Insurer View on Healthcare Law

How would HHS know if claim costs increased or decreased? Did the install a mole in every health insurer's accounting department?

I don't subscribe to WSJ so can't read it, but it is ridiculous. The sickest of the sick flocked immediately to Obamacare and rang up huge bills while it was priced low. It doesn't surprise me at all that the per-person spending has stayed stable.

Imagine it is an all you can eat buffet.

Year one, priced at $12.95 per person. There are coupons (subsidies) available for low-income people to get it for $4.95 a person.

Food is crap, only the really hungry people eat there (AKA previously uninsurable). Or, there are other options for the same price point or a bit more, but you have to drive further away for cheaper. (grandfathered, off exchange). Only people with cars (over 400% of FPL) go there.

Average person who goes there eats $50 worth of food. (has both hips replaced, finally gets treatment for their psoriasis at $4000 a month, has their back surgery, gets addicted to pain pills and has to go to rehab, you get the picture)

Year two:

Wow, we are losing money. I guess we had better price it at $19.95 a person, but we will keep the coupons for poor people to get it at $4.95. We will run the place down the road out of business by forcing them to price match us or give us their profits. We will also force people to eat at our buffet or pay us a surcharge.

Average person who goes there now eats.....$50 worth of food (all this food has give them diabetes and no need to manage it, they can get unlimited insulin for next to nothing)

Year three:

Strangely enough, we are still losing money. We will price it at $29.99, keeping the coupons for poor people of course. They can't afford more than $4.95. All other options are taken off the table (no longer profitable for the farm-to-table down the road to offer their to-go meals AKA non-compliant plans, no more profit, goodbye). If you want to eat and not get surcharged, you have to pay our prices.

Average person who goes there now eats.....$45 worth of food. Some people who have been forced to pay are too nauseated by the stench of rotten food to eat much at all. Others decide they would rather go hungry and pay the surcharge. They can't get a decent meal for less than $29.99 anymore.

But hey, our food costs haven't gone up in three years! We are a success!
Never mind the billions of dollars of losses the first two years. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.



That is the basic premise of the article, right?